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Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

California scientists discover how vitamins and minerals may prevent age-related

diseases

New research in the FASEB Journal demonstrates need for public health

initiatives aimed at identifying, treating and taking seriously modest vitamin

and mineral deficiencies

Bethesda, MD—Severe deficiency of the vitamins and minerals required for life is

relatively uncommon in developed nations, but modest deficiency is very common

and often not taken seriously. A new research published online in the FASEB

Journal (http://www.fasebj.org), however, may change this thinking as it

examines moderate selenium and vitamin K deficiency to show how damage

accumulates over time as a result of vitamin and mineral loss, leading to

age-related diseases.

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McCann and colleagues reached their conclusions by compiling and assessing

several general types of scientific evidence. They tested whether

selenium-dependent proteins that are essential from an evolutionary perspective

are more resistant to selenium deficiency than those that are less essential.

They discovered a highly sophisticated array of mechanisms at cellular and

tissue levels that, when selenium is limited, protect essential

selenium-dependent proteins at the expense of those that are nonessential. They

also found that mutations in selenium-dependent proteins that are lost on modest

selenium deficiency result in characteristics shared by age-related diseases

including cancer, heart disease, and loss of immune or brain function.

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" This paper should settle any debate about the importance of taking a good,

complete, multivitamin every day, " said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief

of the FASEB Journal. " As this report shows, taking a multivitamin that contains

selenium is a good way to prevent deficiencies that, over time, can cause harm

in ways that we are just beginning to understand. "

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